First criminal trial internationally on torture in Egypt: Statement on the trial’s preliminary hearing addressing Italian student Giulio Regeni’s torture and murder.

25/05/2021

Rome, 25 May 2021 Today the preliminary step for a trial in Rome against four senior Egyptian National Security Agency officials will be taken. The […]

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Human rights organizations call on Egyptian authorities to stop trials of TikTok content creators and to guarantee freedom of expression

18/05/2021

18 May 2021 The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the continued prosecution and trial of TikTok and Likee content creators, demanding that the Egyptian authorities […]

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Egyptian rights groups demand an end to the Israeli attacks and apartheid

16/05/2021

Joint statement, 16 May 2021 The undersigned human rights organizations said in a statement that the bloody violent incidents in the occupied Palestinian territories (East […]

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The sowing of souls continues: Organizations condemning the execution of the death sentence against the monk Isaiah al-Maqari, ignoring requests for a pardon, and an investigation into his torture in order to make him confess

10/05/2021

Joint statement 9 May 2021 The Stop the Death Penalty Campaign and the undersigned organizations express their deep condemnation and rejection of the execution of […]

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Human rights organizations condemn medical neglect of human rights lawyer Muhammad Ramadan in Tora Prison and demand his release

10/05/2021

8 May 2021 The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the prevention of health care to human rights lawyer Muhammad Ramadan, who is being held in […]

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Rights groups condemn Egypt’s crackdown on the family of a detainee after their complaints about his torture and sexual assault

05/05/2021

Joint statement, May 5, 2021 The undersigned human rights organizations strongly reject the move by Egyptian authorities to pursue family members of the detainee Abdul […]

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Egypt: Government must end relentless attempt to “eradicate”  independent civil society

04/05/2021

The Egyptian government will convene an online  panel discussion with United Nations member states on the 4th of May  to discuss its national legal framework […]

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Will Egypt compete for the world’s worst executioner in 2021?

30/04/2021

Joint statement, April 30, 2021 The Campaign to Stop the Death Penalty in Egypt and the undersigned human rights organizations strongly condemn and categorically reject […]

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EGYPT: 74 NGOS URGE EGYPTIAN AUTHORITIES TO RELEASE RESEARCHER AHMED SAMIR SANTAWY

14/04/2021

We, the undersigned 74 organizations, call upon the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release 29-year-old student and researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, who has been […]

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Egypt: Rights groups demand immediate release of activist Sanaa Seif

16/03/2021

16 March, 2021 Joint press release In conjunction with the trial session of the Egyptian activist Sanaa Seif al-Islam, the undersigned human rights organizations demand […]

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Joint Statement on Condemnation of Egypt’s Abuses at UN Rights Body

12/03/2021

Geneva, March 12, 2021) Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from around the world expressed their strong support today for a joint declaration by UN member states condemning […]

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Egypt: Archaic Amendments to Personal Status Law Undermine Women’s Rights

04/03/2021

The undersigned human rights organizations reject the government’s draft of the Personal Status Law, published on February 23rd and presented before Egypt’s House of Representatives […]

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Release Manar to join her child

01/03/2021

On the 9th of March 2019 a family was abducted by security forces from their home in Alexandria. The family included the father Omar Abdel […]

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Egypt: Implementing regulations of NGO law intended to cripple civil society

25/02/2021

25 February 2021 The undersigned rights organizations strongly condemn the Egyptian government’s relentless closure of all outlets for civil society activity in the country, as […]

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Egypt: Escalating Reprisals, Arrests of Critics’ Families End Hostage-Like Arrests

19/02/2021

(Beirut, February 19, 2021) The Egyptian authorities’ targeting of families in Egypt of activists and human rights defenders living abroad has been escalating, demonstrating a […]

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